hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on No it won’t 1 day ago:
You don’t want an AI generated non-descript thing?
- Comment on My PS1 died today 1 day ago:
You can get it repaired. There are lots of places online that can do it, and there are probably some repair shops near you that can too. It might be some small part that’s causing the whole issue, so it’s worth checking out.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 days ago:
I understand that. If we had a word for north east, let’s say “yest”, then I wouldn’t have to say “north by north east”, I could just say “north yest”.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 days ago:
Better question is why don’t they have 8? I hate saying “north by north east”.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 4 days ago:
Yeah, but only kind of. It depends if you’re using the new syntax. Within new language constructs (like Class), code runs in strict mode without having to use
“use strict”. It gets rid of some of the annoying quirks. - Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 4 days ago:
So long and thanks for all the memes.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 4 days ago:
I never watered mine. Was that the issue?
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 4 days ago:
I mean, sure, but the JS we write today is quite a bit different than the JS he designed.
It was also heavily influenced by a number of other languages, and borrowed tons of libraries from them. The entire number and math system is just a straightforward implementation of IEEE 754.
- Comment on Why does no one in the bible have a last name? 4 days ago:
So when you say, Christ the Messiah, you’re really saying Messiah the Messiah. Man people were so silly back then. Anyway, I’m off to the Los Angeles Angels game. 👋
- Comment on Why does no one in the bible have a last name? 5 days ago:
Last names were commonly just where you were from, who was your father, or what was your profession.
Jesus Of Nazareth, or Jesus Denazareth, Jesus Nazarethton, Jesus Di’Nazareth, Jesus Von Nazareth, Jesus Van Der Nazareth.
Jesus Son Of Joseph, or Jesus O’Joseph, Jesus Josephson, Jesus McJoseph, Jesus Bin Joseph, Jesus Josephsen, Jesus Ibn Joseph.
Jesus the Carpenter, or Jesus Carpenter.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Those are very memory non-intensive applications, so you almost definitely wouldn’t notice a difference.
The reason it’s better for gaming is that games need to load big textures and models into ram to show new content, and that can cause lag when the ram is too slow. Since you’re gaming, you’ll notice the lag.
While watching a video, the video is buffered into ram much faster than you can watch it, so there won’t be any difference.
While browsing, pages might take around 10 to 50 ms longer to load, but you’re not going to notice that. Most pages load bits and pieces when you click around anyway, so there will be negligible difference after the initial page load.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 6 days ago:
If the quality of the video is good, I like to see it here.
- Comment on Authentism 1 week ago:
tea-earlgrey-hot - Comment on Authentism 1 week ago:
What if I drink tea?
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
Because it would cool down on the way back.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
How else you gonna turn hot into spark? Turning it into move first is super easy.
- Comment on There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny. 1 week ago:
“the AI” -> “my magic 8 ball”
“AI powered” -> “RNG based”
“power of AI” -> “result of lots of coin flips”
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 1 week ago:
I’ve been using Fedora with my RTX 3090 and it works great. I haven’t tried the newer cards, but the 30 series seem to work great in my experience.
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 1 week ago:
The Windows Updatinator!!! This will cause every Windows computer in the tri state area to restart five times over the next hour while constantly telling the user it’s almost done with updates!
[installs Linux]
Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
It’s literally a plagiarism machine, so I completely agree with them.
- Comment on Day 500 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Day 500! Awesome! Thank you for posting all of these. I rarely comment, but I do love seeing them. :)
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Yeah, I am one of those open source devs who doesn’t get paid for it. But I can’t really say it’s the fault of normal users. They’re just people trying to get by. The fault really lies in corporations using open source without supporting it. Some corporations do give back and support communities, but a lot just take and don’t give anything back.
Personally, most of what I write for my company, SciActive, is open source. The only thing I don’t release is my actual product (Port87), but everything I’ve built in order to build it (the ORM, Nymph.js, the UI library, Svelte Material UI, the WebDAV server, Nephele) are all open source.
I do get users shitting on these projects sometimes, but the majority of communications I get are respectful and gracious. It does sour the experience when someone acts rudely, but I try to not let them get under my skin. Some devs have trouble not being bothered by it, and for them, the rude users and lack of compensation are so much worse.
What keeps me writing open source though is that I just genuinely have a passion for writing code. I recently built a full text search engine into Nymph, and the whole process was so much fun. I think that’s what powers open source, genuine passion for what we build.
(There’s one project that gets shit on a lot more than my others, QuickDAV, which I’ve never really understood. A lot of people say they’d rather use SyncThing, which is fine, but they have different use cases, so it just baffles me. It’s like someone looking at Inkscape and saying they’d rather use GIMP.)
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Thank you for being understanding. I shouldn’t have stated it as bluntly as I did either, so I think you were justified in taking it as condescending, and I’m glad we’re seeing each other’s view more clearly now. I think it’s awesome you’re getting into Linux, and even if you don’t ultimately do it, even considering self hosting is awesome. Getting Proxmox and your own NAS up and running is awesome, btw. Something you should be proud of. I do want Linux and self hosting to be a welcoming space, so I’m going to try in the future to be more welcoming.
When you’re ready, you can email me at hperrin-friends@port87.com about my offer. The offer stands any time you feel ready to dive in. :)
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Again, you just sound like you’re not interested in self hosting. I wasn’t even that condescending to you, but you took it that way. You said you don’t want to learn how to self host in a community about self hosting. Like, imagine if someone went into a community about bicycling and was like, “Well, I don’t want to ride bikes, but I like motorcycles because I don’t have to pedal.” You should expect a certain level of disregard in a community if you’re going into that community saying you’re unwilling to learn the basics of what that community is about.
If you’re not interested in self hosting, I’m not saying you’re not welcome here, because a. you are and b. I don’t moderate this community anyway, but I genuinely wonder why you’re here. You did say you might be interested in the future, so…
This is a genuine offer: if you want to learn how to self host, I will get on a video call with you and teach you how to set up some services on your home network and open them up in a secure way. I write and run my own servers, and have for well over a decade, so I am qualified to teach you what you need to know, if you want to learn.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You could learn everything you need to know by watching a 20 minute YouTube video, but you’d rather use a paid product instead. That’s, like, the definition of a skill issue. The issue isn’t that the software is hard to use, it’s that you refuse to learn how to use it.
And that’s not the fault of Jellyfin, because the “ease of use” of Plex is because it’s a paid product. They can afford to run servers to make everything work for you without having to put in any effort to learn. You’re using their servers to make it easy for you, and you’re paying to do it.
It’s fine if you don’t want to learn to set up a service, but it does make me wonder why you’re commenting on a self hosting community.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Sounds like a skill issue.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Plex is not free. Plex is paid software, just like Google Photos or iCloud. The only free software is open source. Open source everything. Doesn’t matter if the client is open source. If the server isn’t, it’s not open source. (I’M LOOKING AT YOU, SNAP!)
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
I’m a software engineer, so that tracks.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
I’d never really connected my lack of a mind’s eye with my inability to follow unnamed characters through a movie until you just said that. 🤯
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
I’m probably about a 4, maybe 3.5, on this scale. It kinda sucks not having any idea what it’s like to actually be able to visualize things, so I don’t even really know what I’m missing.